There's a quite a large collection of xjadeo features which are (in the style of Apple) not easily accessible from the GUI; however most extra-features can either be configured in $HOME/.xjadeorc or accessed with keyboard-shortcuts; more info below.

xjadeo's source-code includes a script to compile and create a DMG on a Mac. Apart from Apple's Xcode it requires a few build-dependencies to be present: pkg-config, freetype, ffmpeg and of course JACK2). ffmpeg itself has quite some additional prerequisites; and building Jadeo can be quite a task.

This concept is somewhat against Mac style. So while porting xjadeo, a Menu-Bar got included that indirectly uses the remote-ctrl interface. The GUI has some remaining ToDo (eg. remember recent files, preference dialog, etc); in the meantime you can store preferences or override default-settings in $HOME/.xjadeorc.